President of Dagestan Mukhu Aliyev, speaking on December 25 at a press conference following the results of the year, spoke out against the Islamization of the region, the Interfax-religion portal reports . "We should not follow the path of Islamization. There is no need to turn our republic into an Islamic republic," M. Aliyev said. “I don’t think,” he said, “that it’s normal when three mosques are built in one small village. And each mullah pulls people to his side.

On the evening of December 23, 2006, in the city of Shchelkovo, Moscow Region, police officers carried out mass arrests of RNU (Russian National Unity) supporters A. Barkashov, who had gathered in the forest to celebrate the pagan holiday "Kolovrat" (timed to coincide with the winter solstice). Law enforcement officers waited until the event ended and the youth began to leave the forest for the railway platform.

According to the Yuri Levada Analytical Center, in 2006, 4% of Russians declared their intention to celebrate Christmas on December 25, the Interfax-religion portal reports.

On December 25, 2006, the Leninsky District Court of Yaroslavl issued a verdict in the case of desecration and arson of the cathedral mosque. Both defendants were convicted under Part 2 of Art. 282 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation (incitement of national and religious hatred). S. Fedorov was sentenced to 1 year 3 months of imprisonment with probation for 1 year 6 months. A. Zabelin - to 10 months of corrective labor conditionally with a probationary period of 1 year.

On the night of December 23-24, 2006, in Moscow, near the Novokuznetskaya metro station, an attack was made on a native of the Caucasus. The victim was beaten by a group of teenagers. The paramedics gave him medical attention. The details of the incident are unknown. Apparently, the victim was not robbed. Sources In the center of Moscow, a group of teenagers beat up a Caucasian // City-FM. 2006. December 24.

On the evening of December 22, there was an attack on the museum-apartment of Mikhail Bulgakov. According to Ekaterina Avdyushkina, an employee of the museum, the pogrom was organized by Alexander Morozov, who had repeatedly accused museum workers of "propaganda of Satanism." portal reports "The intruder, - the Interfax-religion , - entered ... through the back door into the room where the museum's funds were located (apartment 51 in building No. 10 on Bolshaya Sadovaya Street).

On December 22, 2006 about 5 p.m. in Moscow there was an attempt to murder 20 year old Tigran, an antifascist, one of the creators of www.antifa.ru website. Coming out of the flat, Tigran saw the table on the radiator. His first intention was to remove it by himself, but he thought it strange, that the inscription was painted on a table instead of on the wall, and decided to call the police. Four policemen and a canine specialist with a dog came to the place.

December 22, 2006 at about 5 p.m. in Moscow on the street. Lyublinskaya made an attempt on the life of a 20-year-old anti-fascist student, one of the creators of the information portal Antifa.ru, Tigran M. On the 9th floor site next to his apartment, unknown persons installed a booby-trapped sign with an offensive inscription with anti-Caucasian content. A swastika was painted on the wall next to the apartment in black paint. Tigran noticed a sign attached to the battery while leaving the house.

On December 23 , the Russian Line reported that the position of believers in the conflict around the Patriarchal Metochion in Sokolniki was supported by the Just Russia party. An encouraging answer for the Orthodox also came from the Ministry of Internal Affairs. In a letter from the chairman of the "Fair Russia" S.M.

Portal-Credo.ru columnist Roman Lunkin in his article "Two Crooked Mirrors" draws attention to the polarity of the opinions of the participants in the public discussion about "non-traditional" religiosity: "Human rights activists, religious scholars, on the one hand, and Orthodox apologists, on the other, draw their models of an "ideal" state : in one, the authorities are secular, and all believers are absolutely equal, in the other, the authorities are clerical, and any "suspicious" and

The European Court of Human Rights in Strasbourg rejected the complaint of the Russian National Union (RONS) against the Russian Ministry of Justice's ban on registering the union as a political party. Thus, the decision of the Ministry of Justice was recognized as justified. "This decision will become the basis for the adoption of appropriate verdicts by Russian courts in similar cases ," Gennady Alibekov, head of the secretariat of the Federal Registration Service (FRS), said.